pickettd

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by pickettd 7mo ago
Reddit and GitHub are littered with people launching new projects and appear to be way more feature-rich than new tool/app launches from previous years. I think it is a lot harder to get noticed with a new tool/app new because of
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by pickettd 11mo ago
Was the on-device local LLM stack that you tried llama.cpp or something like MLC? I've seen better performance with MLC than llama.cpp in the past - but it has been probably at a least a year since I tested iphones and androids for loc
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by pickettd 1y ago
I also want to add on that I really appreciate the benchmarks. When I was working with RAG llama.cpp through RN early last year I had pretty acceptable tok/sec results up through 7-8b quantized models (on phones like the S24+ and iPhon
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by pickettd 1y ago
I get what you mean about wanting a visual app to experience yourself and be able to point others too. I recently followed this MLX tutorial for making a small model act well for home speaker automation/tool-use that I think could pote
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by pickettd 2y ago
Looks like MLX quants are released: - 4bit: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/QwQ-32B-4bit - 6bit: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/QwQ-32B-6bit
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by pickettd 2y ago
Depends on what benchmarks/reports you trust I guess (and how much hardware you have for local models either in-person or in-cloud). https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ has Deepseek v3 scoring higher than m
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by pickettd 2y ago
My gut feeling is that there may be optimization you can do for faster performance (but I could be wrong since I don't know your setup or requirements). In general on a 4090 running between Q6-Q8 quants my tokens/sec have been sim
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by pickettd 2y ago
I love the idea of openrouter. I hadn't realized until recently though that you don't necessarily know what quantization a certain provider is running. And of course context size can vary widely from provider to provider for the s
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by pickettd 2y ago
I experimented with both Exo and llama.cpp in RPC-server mode this week. Using an M3 Max and an M1 Ultra in Exo specifically I was able to get around 13 tok/s on DeepSeek 2.5 236B (using MLX and a 4 bit quant with a very small test pro
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by pickettd 2y ago
The Android apk for MLC is updated frequently with recent models built-in. And a Samsung S24+ can comfortably run 7-8B models at reasonable speeds (10ish tokens/sec). https://llm.mlc.ai/docs/deploy/android.htm
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by pickettd 5y ago
As an additional data point - I've read Anathem multiple times and have loved it every time but I read The Book of the New Sun series and really disliked it (though to be fair, I only read TBotNS series once). But I know that TBotNS ge
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by pickettd 9y ago
The CapOne 2% business card is called Spark Cash and doesn't have the redemption restrictions that you're describing (I think you may be thinking of their Venture card or another personal travel card). The only two downsides to th
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by pickettd 10y ago
I got a LG G3 (3GB RAM model) earlier this year and it meets those requirements. I've really enjoyed using it so far.
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by pickettd 11y ago
Or somewhere with great solar power potential. For example Kihei on Maui - you can power a whole house with central air and still have enough energy to charge up an EV just with rooftop photovoltaics.
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by pickettd 11y ago
There is a "Dragon Box" on Amazon that sells for $270ish and appears to be a lower-powered Android Kodi box. I imagine that a second generation Pi could perform just as well.
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by pickettd 11y ago
My first generation Pi was significantly slower at Kodi (things like menu traversal, library updates, API consumption, etc) than a second generation Pi (I tried a friend's). So I was already considering $35-40 for a new Pi when I saw t
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by pickettd 11y ago
As ixnu mentioned - I use the Moonlight Android app ( http://moonlight-stream.com/ ) paired with Geforce Experience running on my Windows box (Geforce GTX 750 Ti video card) for Steam games. To be honest though - my Moonlight
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by pickettd 11y ago
I picked up a $50 Nexus Player (Android TV OS) last month for this purpose. It replaced a first generation Raspberry Pi B that was actually pretty decent as a Kodi box (I used the Xbian distro). So far I'm really happy with the Nexus P
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Ask HN: Connect people who want photos with people who take them
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by pickettd 12y ago
I think there are certain stores that routinely report itemised info. I just posted this link in another comment thread but check out the https://www.visa.com/supplierlocator/ search results for the column 'Enhanc
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by pickettd 12y ago
Yeah, I saw that section on Wikipedia also. But I believe I've found a link indicating that level 3 is being used for consumer purchases in at least some individual stores. If you look through Visa's supplier locator at https:&#x
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by pickettd 12y ago
My understanding is that there are three levels of credit card processing (1, 2, and 3 - corresponding to different amounts of information transmitted about the transaction). I've heard from individuals supposedly familiar with payment
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by pickettd 12y ago
So far I've been able to get by in Windows (for my projects at least) if I use Cygwin for interacting with paths that are longer than MAX_PATH. For example - if a project has node_modules committed in git then I have to clone the repo
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by pickettd 13y ago
Are any of the positions open to US-based remote candidates? Thanks!
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by pickettd 13y ago
I have a full-time, remote, software development job that I started while travelling. It is doable. You may find that it is hard to be motivated to do work when you'd rather be out seeing the place that you are visiting though. I also find
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by pickettd 14y ago
Would you mind answering a couple of extra questions about the opening? My email address is in my profile if you'd prefer not to post yours here. Thanks!
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by pickettd 14y ago
Would you mind answering a couple of extra questions about the openings? My email address is in my profile if you'd prefer not to post yours here. Thanks!
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by pickettd 14y ago
Would you mind answering a couple of extra questions about the opening? My email address is in my profile if you'd prefer not to post yours here. Thanks!
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by pickettd 14y ago
Would you mind answering a couple of extra questions about the openings? My email address is in my profile if you'd prefer not to post yours here. Thanks!
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by pickettd 14y ago
In contrast to what other people seem to be saying in this thread, I personally appreciated your explanation of the logic behind your decision. It didn't feel sleazy to me and I think I would have been somewhat turned off by a confrontation

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